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Replication files for

“Pandemic responsiveness: Evidence from social distancing and lockdown policy during COVID-19”

By Timothy Besley and Sacha Dray

The file "replication_plosone.do" contains all codes used to replicate the figures and tables in the main text and Appendix.

The subfolder "Data" contains raw data files sued to replicate all tables and figures for the analysis. 
	- covid_usa_county.dta : panel dataset of county x day observations
	- covid_usa_state.dta  : panel dataset of state x day observations
	- google_mobility_usa  : Google mobility dataset to validate the Social Distancing index

The subfolder "Output" contains the figures and tables.